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Radio 2 Book Club with Nick Bradley

Author Nick Bradley joins Jo for the latest edition of the Radio 2 Book Club, discussing his novel The Cat & The City.

Author Nick Bradley joins Jo for the latest edition of the Radio 2 Book Club, discussing his novel The Cat & The City.

In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways.

But the city is changing. As it does, it pushes her to the margins where she chances upon a series of apparent strangers - from a homeless man squatting in an abandoned hotel, to a shut-in hermit afraid to leave his house, to a convenience store worker searching for love. The cat orbits Tokyo's denizens, drawing them ever closer.

Nick Bradley graduated with a master’s degree in English literature and went to Japan for “just one year”. He returned to England ten years later.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Mon 1 Jun 202020:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Beyoncé

    Halo

    • I Am...Sasha Fierce.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Sia

    Together

    • Together.
    • Monkey Puzzle/Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Razorlight

    Somewhere Else

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • AURORA

    Exist For Love

  • We Are Scientists

    I Cut My Own Hair

    • I Cut My Own Hair.
    • 100% Records.
    • 1.

  • Chuck Berry

    You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)

    • The Best Of Chuck Berry.
    • MCA.

  • Paul Weller

    Village

    • On Sunset.
    • Polydor.

  • No Rome, beadadoobee & Jay Som

    Hurry Home ( with beadadoobee & Jay Som)

  • Phoebe Bridgers

    Kyoto

    • Dead Oceans.

  • Roberta Flack

    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

    • Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974.
    • Atlantic.

  • Bob & Marcia

    Young Gifted & Black

    • Young Gifted & Black (Various).
    • Trojan.

  • Fontaines D.C.

    A Hero's Death

    • PARTISAN RECORDS.

  • Lana Del Rey

    The Greatest

    • The Greatest.
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Moby

    Too Much Change

  • Genesis

    Follow You Follow Me

    • And Then There Were Three.
    • Charisma.

  • Lianne La Havas

    Can't Fight

    • Lianne La Havas.
    • WARNER RECORDS.
    • 4.

  • Mac DeMarco

    Freaking Out the Neighborhood

    • 2.
    • Captured Tracks.
    • 3.

  • Michelle Shocked

    Anchorage

    • The No.1 Country Album (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    505

  • Haim

    Don't Wanna

  • Musical Youth

    Pass The Dutchie

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.

  • Lucy Rose

    Question It All

    • Question It All.
    • Communion Records.
    • 1.

  • Khruangbin

    Time (You And I)

    • Dead Ocean Records.

  • Andy Williams

    The Impossible Dream

    • The Very Best Of Music To Watch Girls By (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music.
    • 2.

  • Lauryn Hill

    Doo Wop (That Thing)

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • Sports Team

    Going Soft

    • Deep Down Happy.
    • Island Records.

  • Frank Ocean

    Pink + White

  • Jack Garratt

    Weathered

  • Jack Garratt

    Better (Radio 2 Sofa Session, 1st June 2020)

  • Jack Garratt

    Mara (Radio 2 Sofa Session, 1st June 2020)

  • Celeste

    I Can See The Change

  • hard life

    peanut butter

    • see you later maybe never (demos).
    • Island Records.
    • 1.

  • Orlando Weeks

    Milk Breath

  • Jimmy Cliff

    Many Rivers To Cross

    • Young Gifted & Black (Various).
    • Trojan.

Broadcast

  • Mon 1 Jun 202020:00
    BBC Radio 2